I haven't used Kindles personally ever, but I helped my neighbor export their kindle collection a few years ago.

It dumped it into mobi files to use with calibre. Then from there, you can convert them into epubs.

I recall it being straightforward. Probably something a kindle owner should do periodically to back up their collection.

I've used Calibre and stripped DRM off eBooks, definitely recommend.

I use Calibre to remove the DRM from all ebooks I buy. Not that I buy a lot of them, but hell if I’ll let Amazon be the keeper of the keys.

You don't own your Kindle books because you bought them from Amazon

I don't own mine because I pirated them

We are not the same

edit: I actually try to circle back around and buy physical copies of any book I really enjoy. But I'm much better about paying for video games, tabletop games, and even journalism than I am fiction... I think my bezos resentment gets in the way a bit there.

Like hell I don't. Calibre plus NoDRM says otherwise.

You can strip the DRM if needed

🏴‍☠️

There are also Kindle books sold without DRM at the request of the author.

Yaar, matey.

I am now of the opinion that you should just download books off indexing sites/IRC/ Usenet/torrents and if you like the book and want to support the author, buy a physical copy, or buy 2 and put one in a neighborhood free library. That maximizes the good you are doing and helps your community instead of just generating Bezos bux.

I can't wait until a Senator or comparable "it's not a problem until it happens to me" lawmaker loses access to their digital library and goes on the warpath. That's the only way out of this "you will own nothing" hellhole we're in and moving deeper into.

Jokes on you I pirates mine!

Jokes on Amazon I can almost always find a copy of what ever book on libgen that I end up owning crazy how that works

yo ho yo ho...a pirate's life for me...

Sorry, what are we talking about?

Throw the Kindle to the ground and get a Kobo, they let you pirate books a million times easier

Kobo and epub only. Anything else, you don't own and you shouldn't pay for it.

I'll just keep using my local public library.

Most of them lend eBooks these days so I know I won't get to keep them regardless, but I also don't have to pay for them.

Duh. Same goes for Steam games and most of digital content.

If you want to keep it, there's usually always an option to sail the high seas.

Any Kindle owner should go find out how easy it is to get library books on their Kindle. It’s totally the way to go. You don’t have to buy their shit and deal with their rules.

This is why I pirate my media, and you should too!

You are right I get my books for my kindle from torrents. I do not own them. I also don't pay for them.

(Also library has epubs, librarys are great)

I own the 1000s of ebooks I've downloaded to my personal media server.

This should be like a PSA when signing up for internet service. Like, hello new internet user! Welcome to the glorious, uncensored world wide forum of information, of which there is a 30+ year established culture of lying and manipulation in order to get you to buy things and/or steal your information in order to advertise to you. By the by, should you sign up for one of the hundreds of content streaming services, YSK that none of the content is yours to own ever. If it's not physically in your hands, it's not yours.

That's why you shouldn't buy books from Amazon or other online ebook stores instead just download the ePubs elsewhere.

I'd also highly recommend KOreader if you have a Kindle or Ereader which supports it, as it supports many more formats and has a nice interface.

Also to add that amazon has been caught encouraging users to "refund" e-books and purchase a different one, without telling users that these refunds are clawed back from the Authors.

Then to double fuck the Authors they didnt give authors detailed statements - only payments of the monthly total, so any "refunds" were deducted from the total sales from that month and author paid the difference. This was only noticed when an author with an accounting/finance background noticed a negative payment statement one month and looked into this and found amazon routinely charging back authors, sometimes for multiple copies of 'refunds' that didnt actually get refunded, straight up stealing from the Authors.

Jokes on them, I have a Gen1 Kindle that won't even connect to wifi.

Amazon is on my shit list and will not buy any products from them ever again. They are one of the worst monopolist mega corporations. They treat their employees like slaves, are anti-repair, anti-consumer.

I gifted an older Kindle to my sister, and the screen broke (out of warranty). I contacted Amazon about it, and they basically said they don't make replacement parts and don't service the kindles, they can only give me a small discount for buying a new one.

I looked up a guide on doing it myself, and even if I find a replacement screen, it's really difficult. The screen is glued with a strong adhesive. The entire device looks very cheaply built and deliberately made really difficult to repair.

it's the same with Google Books. you can't copy text from the book you bought into your notes. you're not allowed to copy text. i want to buy books legitimately for my research, but i cant use any of this shit.